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The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation Awards $1.5 Million to Nursing-Driven Innovations

A $300,000 Hillman Catalyst Award will allow Thrive, in partnership with Penn Medicine at Home and Pennsylvania Hospital, to expand to a second site and generate new evidence that could help to establish the intervention as a standard for delivering comprehensive transitional care to Medicaid patients and their families.

Transitional care innovation for Medicaid-insured individuals: early findings

BMJ Open Quality

Chronically ill adults insured by Medicaid experience health inequities following hospitalization. Early results from year 1 of the Thrive clinical pathway suggests increasing home care referrals and reductions in 30-day readmission and ED use compared with baseline.

Human-Centered Design Innovation to Help All Patients Thrive

The Journal of Nursing Administration

Dr. J. Margo Brooks Carthon discusses her work to support access to quality healthcare services for patients in minority and less than affluent circumstances. The Thrive program has offered intensive wrap-around clinical and social services and has positively impacted the wellness of chronically ill individuals.

Addressing Patients’ Social Needs after Hospitalization

Penn LDI

Patients with significant social needs are at risk for poorer health outcomes after hospital discharge. With funding from the Leonard Davis Institute and Penn Center for Health Care Innovation, researchers at Penn Nursing and an interdisciplinary team of clinicians at Penn Presbyterian developed an intervention to improve post-hospitalization outcomes among these patients.